Table 2 Process evaluation plan

Senior Health and Safety managers in entertainment/brewery organisations (n = 2)

Post-intervention semi-structured interviews

To gain information about:

• Their perception of alcohol-related violence in the NTE and feelings of organisational responsibility

• Existing policies and practices to address alcohol-related violence in large agencies pre-SMILE

• Variation in organisational practice over the UK

• Research aim 1, 5 and 6

Senior EHOs - involved in trial development and implementation (n = 3)

Post-intervention focus group

• Description of role in intervention development

• Gain perceptions of organisational change needed to adopt SMILE

• Description of implementation processes and integration with usual EHO practice, including barriers and facilitators

• Research aims 1, 2, 5 and 6

EHOs (max 22) - one from each LA engaged in the delivery of the intervention

Post-intervention semi-structured interviews

• Description of role of EHOs in LPs pre-SMILE

Routine monitoring data

• Description of practitioner participation, reception and responsiveness to the intervention

• Process of intervention delivery, including fidelity, barriers and facilitators & extent of interagency collaboration

• Description of location, size suitability of intervention/control premises

• Research aims 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6.

Premises staff in 22 intervention and 22 control premises.

Post-intervention semi-structured interviews

Intervention premises:

Routine monitoring data

• Receipt and reaction to the intervention.

• Nature of the intervention, its acceptability and reach through organizational hierarchies, and information about how the intervention fitted with intervention premises contexts

• Research aims 1, 4, 5, and 6.

Control premises:

• ‘Usual practice’ of EHO visits

• Compare intervention EHO visits with control EHO visits

• Research aims 1, 5 and 6